CNS: Code Pink Used Media Badges To Disrupt GOP Convention

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Fringe Activists Use Passes To Penetrate GOP Convention







Talk hosts and bloggers are buzzing over now-confirmed reports that radical Code Pink activists infiltrated this week's GOP convention in St Paul using media passes belonging to others. Once inside, they were able to disrupt the proceedings, including Sarah Palin's speech and pro-life speeches that occurred earlier in the week.

The latter event featured radio talk host Laura Ingraham and longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.

According to CNS News (in a story referenced earlier by Rush Limbaugh), at least one of the badges obtained by Code Pink was intended for a St Louis Post-Dispatch reporter:

Code Pink Used Media Credentials to Disrupt Convention Event

By Fred Lucas and Pete Winn

CNSNews.com Staff Writers


(CNSNews.com) – St. Paul, Minn. - A Code Pink protestor, who identified herself to CNSNews.com as Rae Abileah, used a media credential to disrupt a pro-life event held here this week during the Republican National Convention.

In an on-camera interview with CNSNews.com, Abileah, who was wearing a badge identifying her as “Jo Mannies, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,” said someone gave her a media credential to get into the event, which was sponsored by the Republican National Coalition for Life (RNC for Life).


CNSNews.com: Where did you get the name tag?

Abileah: From the table. ….

Unidentified woman: You’re not Jo Mannies. [Then to CNSnews.com] She’s got a Jo Mannies badge on.

Abileah: Someone gave me this to go inside.

Unidentified woman: Joe Mannies is a reporter form the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. From the state of Missouri. And you’re not Jo Mannies.

Abileah: Someone gave me it from a media outlet.

Mannies, a regional political correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, told CNSNews.com by phone that she didn’t give her name tag to anybody. She also did not know anyone had impersonated her at the Republican National Coalition for Life event until two Missouri delegates told her about it later.

But she also said that she had not been issued a badge with her name on it, either.

“I had gone there and checked in, and they handed me a badge without a name on it, it just said ‘media,’” Mannies said. “So, I just stuck it on, and went in and I was sitting in the back typing, and I went to the ladies room, ran back in when I heard a little ruckus, saw her on stage shouting, as she was being rolled out--a protester, I have no idea who it was--then I left because I had to get to the convention center.”

In fact, Code Pink now outright admits it disrupted Palin's speech, as its site indicates:

ST. PAUL — Two activists of the women’s peace group CODEPINK disrupted Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the Republican National Convention when they approached the stage where Palin was speaking, adjusted their clothes to reveal pink slips that read “Palin is not a woman’s choice,” stood there at the side of the stage for about a minute and yelled “Women say no to war!” and “Women need a vice-president for peace!” They also removed banners that read “Women need a peace vice-president.”

Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.

Still unanswered is how Code Pink was able to obtain these passes. Was security really that lax? It seems hard to believe. Did a media outlet provide them with credentials belonging to others? If true, it would have truly crossed an ethical line.


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